Peter Wolanin
Senior Application Architect
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Wolanin is a Senior Application Architect with 17 years of experience building and securing large-scale Drupal-based SaaS and PaaS products, currently driving the architecture of SciShield on Drupal 10. A top 1% contributor and long-time subsystem maintainer for Drupal since 2006, he combines deep PHP/MySQL expertise with platform security, Apache Solr integration, and extensive AWS and Linux ops experience. He has led cloud security and hosting initiatives at Acquia, founded core search and hosting services, and codified automated compliance and patch management practices. Comfortable across languages and tooling—from Ruby and Bash to Puppet and the AWS API—he pairs hands-on development with system-level architecture. An unusual blend of academic rigor (Princeton and a PhD-level biophysics background) and grassroots organizing, he brings both scientific discipline and practical people skills to complex technical and campaign-driven projects.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physics (biophysics), Ph.D. Physics (biophysics) at University of MichiganA.B. Physics, A.B. Physics at Princeton University
Github Skills (5)
cms10
php10
multiview10
javascript5
css4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
backdrop/backdrop
Nov 2010 - Nov 2010
Backdrop core code repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Peter primarily worked on improving the views interface within the Backdrop CMS project. Their contributions involved adding and modifying form elements, specifically for view creation and configuration. The user also refactored code and updated dependencies. The user was involved in integrating view_wizard plugins and defining style options.
cmsbackdropphpcode-repository
pwolanin/behat-api-extension
Nov 2017 - Feb 2025
API extension for Behat, used to ease testing of JSON-based APIs
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 4 months
apibehattestingrestjson
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